Intervene with the Violators
Over the past few decades, many Egos have been advocating and lobbying for
human rights. Organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch
have been participants in international affairs regarding Human rights violations and
mistreatments. It is the duty of the international community to intervene in any society
violating and mistreating its population. By intervening, not only do the violations become
publicly scrutinized, but these being mistreated receive indirect support and the
governments of the violator states are infected with foreign influences intending to
reestablish human dignity rather than creating war or more crimes against man.
The general belief in the 20th century is that the international community should
intervene in any society that violates generic human rights. Three reasons I find necessary
for intervention are " to maintain international security; to uphold human rights, especially
the right to life; and to alleviate suffering caused by famine or other humanitarian
crisis"(Clemens 481). Intervention can be requested by a host government seeking aid,
imposed on a government that is threatening or endangering its own people or others, or
provided to states where anarchy has overran the government. Intervention is summoned
because there is an injustice occurring on the international level, and many times it can not
be stopped from where it is happening.
Three very important types of "meddling" can affect the violations of human
rights. Through special reporters, periodic reports, and organizations such as the
European Court of Human Rights, mistreatment of people have decreased because of the
UN's intervention. The United Nations created a subdivision within itself to monitor and
fix human rights violations that were spotted within the participating countries. In each of
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